As a whole the engineering team is making a lot of moves to upgrade the stack and methodologies, which provides a lot of opportunity for new thought and experimentation. Freedom to make decisions and innovate is, personally, the best benefit here.

That being said: A generous vacation policy (no formal cap), ESPP, 401k match, and good insurance all round out the benefits and make working at this stable company very nice.

Cons

Parts of the company feel like 1980s Big Waterfall: By the high speed software-as-a-service world we now live in it can be quite jarring how long it can take for some teams to even provide basic feedback.

Advice to Management

Release the purse strings a bit! Open up some more training budget to help educate, and reward, engineers by allowing more people to go to conferences.

Not many Pro’s at this place, which has led to massive turn over. Recent bogus reviews from low-level employees are especially humorous on Glassdoor.com.

Cons

Leadership notoriously makes bad decisions and employment promises to new hires to lure them on board. Once on board the promises melt away. Management is expert at tuning out and blaming field sales. The party rages on for a select few.

Advice to Management

Management is aware of all of these issues. This is how they choose to run the company.

Amazing products and customers, genuinely meaningful work stopping cyber attacks every day means there's a mission to believe in beyond showing up and collecting a paycheck. Nice people overall in most departments.

Stock is doing wellNice people to work withFlexible time offGreat work life balanceHR really tries to do their best with the small budget that they are allocatedGood legal teamCompany has taken a lot of steps towards equal pay, anti discrimination & harassment training.Cross team collaboration is excellentTeam hackathons give you the chance to turn your idea into a product.Decent bonus & ESP program.

Cons

Benefits are below standard and fall way short of other companiesPoor 401 K matchPoor health care premium contributions forcing employees into high deductible plansNo paid paternal or maternal leave. You have to manage with California disability or family leave which is caped to a small amountNo cafeteria, or gym . Has rampant parking problemsHard to request hardware upgrades, IT is very frugal

Advice to Management

Be a little nicer to your employees. If you continue trying to cut costs at this rate you will lose high performing team members.

Company Updates

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